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Believed he was the absolute ruler anointed by God
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massive defeat at hands of Hindenburg and Ger.
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Rasputin assassinated in December of 1916 that resulted in
Complete mismanagement of the wartime economy -
Amnesty granted to all political prisoners in March of 1917He preached that the war was a capitalist/imperialist war that offered no rewards for the peasants/workers; he also felt the war was over w/ the czar’s abdication
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Duma declared itself a Provisional Government on March12
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Czar Nicholas II abdicated (gave up) his power
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Tsar ordered soldiers to intervene; instead they joined the rebellion…the Tsar thus abdicated on March 17
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This gave control of the army to the common soldiers; discipline thus collapsed, and Kerensky was undermined
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Also known as the: Bolshevik Revolution, bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg and bolsheviks claimed absolute power
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this was the ideological aspect of the rev., w/ the coup itself planned by Leon Trotsky, who had gained the confidence of the army (= the “Red Miracle”)
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Lenin’s 1st order of business = get Russia out of WWI and Signed peace treaty with Germany in March 1918
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Bolshevik Party renamed Communist Party in March of 1918
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Outnumbered, disorganized, poorly equipped armies
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Russia becomes USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics = Soviet Union
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Lenin died in 1924 at the age of 54
